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HICSS-36 Minitrack on MOBILE DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS

http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/mobile/hicss

Part of the Software Technology Track

Thirty-sixth Annual HAWAI'I INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES January 6 - 9, 2003, Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Big Island of Hawaii

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Abstracts due: April 10, 2002 (new!) Full Papers due: June 1, 2002

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In today's mobile society, access to relevant information and to context-specific services "anytime, anywhere" is becoming increasingly important. Mobile users are often particularly interested in information about and services in their immediate vicinity, thus Mobile Distributed Information Systems must address location-dependent distribution of and access to services and information from mobile devices. The user's topological and geographical location becomes relevant for the semantics of communication, and such communication has to remain seamless even in foreign environments, with little or no need for manual reconfiguration. Frequently, in addition to his location, the user's current situation determines his information and service requirements. With mobile devices becoming more and more powerful, mobile users themselves may offer information and services to peers in an ad-hoc manner. Consequently, the long-established distinction between clients and servers is blurred, which calls for an extension of the architecture paradigm towards peer and/or alternating roles.

This Minitrack will address current topics in the field of Mobile Distributed Information Systems, such as: • Location and Situation aware Information Services • Network Support for Mobile Access to Services and Information • Ad hoc Networking • Quality of Service for Mobile Information Access • Directory Services, Service Discovery, Service Brokers • Service Interoperability, Service Distribution, Service Management • Self-/Zero-/Auto-Configuration, Dynamic Configuration for Mobile Users • Distributed Databases and Data Management for Mobile Access • Modeling a User's Situation • Mobile Devices: GUIs and Usability • Management of Groups of Mobile Users • Location Tracking Technologies • Fundamentals of location-based Information and Service Distribution • Architectures for Mobile Computing and Peer Service Provision • Security Aspects of Mobile Distributed Information Systems • Charging Models for Mobile Information and Service Access • Business Opportunities and M-Commerce Potential of Mobile Distributed Information Systems • Mobile Service and Information Provision in the Tourism Industry • Case Studies of Mobile Distributed Information Systems

MINITRACK CHAIRS

Andreas Meissner Wolfgang Schönfeld Lars Wolf Fraunhofer IPSI Fraunhofer IPSI University of Karlsruhe Dolivostrasse 15 Dolivostrasse 15 Zirkel 2 64293 Darmstadt 64293 Darmstadt 76128 Karlsruhe Germany Germany Germany Tel: +49-6151-869-847 Fax: +49-6151-869-6847

{Andreas.Meissner, Wolfgang.Schoenfeld}@ipsi.fhg.de Lars.Wolf@uni-karlsruhe.de

The Minitrack Website is http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/mobile/hicss Please email general inquiries to hicss@ipsi.fraunhofer.de

MINITRACK PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Heribert Baldus, Philips Research Labs, Germany Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia Univ, USA Maria Francesca Costabile, Univ Bari, Italy Carsten Griwodz, Univ Oslo, Norway Junzhong Gu, East China Normal Univ, China Pål Halvorsen, Univ Oslo, Norway Haiming Huang, Broadstorm, USA David Hutchison, Univ Lancaster, UK Jae-Yong Lee, R&D Center of Serome Technology Inc., Korea Bruce McDonald, Northeastern Univ, USA Andreas Meissner, FhG IPSI, Germany Jochen Schiller, Freie Univ Berlin, Germany Jens Schmitt, Tech Univ Darmstadt, Germany Wolfgang Schönfeld, FhG IPSI, Germany Lars Wolf, Tech Univ Karlsruhe, Germany

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

April 10, 2002 Abstracts submitted to hicss@ipsi.fraunhofer.de for guidance and indication of appropriate content.

June 1, 2002 Full papers submitted to hicss@ipsi.fraunhofer.de

August 31, 2002 Notice of acceptance or rejections of papers sent to Authors by Minitrack Chairs.

October 1, 2002 Accepted manuscripts submitted electronically to the publisher of the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to attend the conference by this date. Registration cancellations after this date may result in the paper being pulled from the Proceedings prior to printing. See conference web site for registration fee refund policy.

NOTE: Because HICSS is a nonprofit activity funded entirely by registration fees, all participants and speakers are expected to have their university/organization bear the costs of their expenses and registration. HICSS is not able to subsidize registrations or offer reduced fees.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION

1. Abstracts and full papers may be submitted by email to hicss@ipsi.fraunhofer.de as PDF, Postscript, or RTF documents. Abstracts may also be sent in ASCII format and are expected to be 300-500 words. Full papers should consist of 22-26 double-spaced pages, including diagrams. Papers may be theoretical, conceptual or descriptive in nature. (NOTE: The final paper will be 10 pages, double-column, single-spaced.)

2. Do not submit the manuscript to individual Minitrack Chairs - use the above alias instead. Papers should contain original material and not be previously published, or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere.

3. Each paper must have a title page to include title of the paper, full name of all authors, and complete addresses including affiliation(s), telephone number(s), and e-mail address(es).

4. The first page of the manuscript should include only the title and a 300-word abstract of the paper.

TRACKS AT HICSS-36

• Collaboration Systems; Co-Chair: Jay Nunamaker; Email: nunamaker@bpa.arizona.edu; Co-Chair: Robert O. Briggs; Email: bbriggs@GroupSystems.com • Complex Systems; Chair: Robert Thomas; Email: rjt1@cornell.edu • Decision Tech. for Management; Chair: Dan Dolk; Email: dolker@redshift.com • Digital Documents and Media; Chair: Michael Shepherd; Email: shepherd@cs.dal.ca • Emerging Technologies; Co-Chair: Ralph H. Sprague; Email: sprague@hawaii.edu; Co-Chair: Hesham El-Rewini; Email: rewini@engr.smu.edu • Information Technology in Health Care; Chair: William Chismar; Email: chismar@cba.hawaii.edu • Internet & the Digital Economy; Co-Chair: David King; Email: dave@comshare.com; Co-Chair: Alan Dennis; Email: ardennis@indiana.edu • Organizational Systems & Tech.; Chair: Hugh Watson; Email: hwatson@uga.edu • Software Technology; Chair: Hesham El-Rewini; Email: rewini@engr.smu.edu

HICSS conferences are devoted to advances in the information, computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Invited papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Submissions undergo a peer referee process and those selected for presentation will be published in the Conference Proceedings (IEEE). Submissions must not have been previously published. For the latest information visit the HICSS web site at: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu

CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION:

Ralph Sprague, Conference Chair Email: sprague@hawaii.edu

Eileen Dennis, Track Administrator Email: eidennis@indiana.edu Tel: 1-812-331-0551 Fax: 1-812-331-0564

Sandra Laney, Conference Administrator Email: hicss@hawaii.edu Tel: 1-808-956-3251 Fax: 1-808-956-5759

2003 HICSS-36 CONFERENCE VENUE:

Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Big Island of Hawaii 425 Waikoloa Beach Drive Waikoloa, Hawaii 96738 Tel: 1-808-886-1234 Fax: 1-808-886-2900 http://www.hiltonwaikoloavillage.com